Sporting posts from my other blog: Sporting Time(s) - Make Time For Sports

View image | gettyimages.com To tell you the truth, I did not really watch much of this World Cup’s final featuring Australia and New Zealand. Switching on the telly after returning from morning Mass, with Brendon McCullum gone cheaply, it would be an uphill task for the Kiwis to compile a formidable total. Two more […]

View image | gettyimages.com What went wrong with a team that came into the semi-finals undefeated, winning seven straight games in a row? What can explain the abject display of this Indian side once they came up against their bete-noire of the last five months? Was it another case of déjà vu? First, the Australians […]

It’s final. The home sides will face-off in another Transmanic match-up on Sunday the 29th of March 2015 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The Australians clinically demolished Team India’s cup hopes with an all-round display of aggression and intent with the bat and ball. They backed it up with tight fielding barring a few hiccups, […]

View image | gettyimages.com The quarters are over and the winners gave no quarter. Well, almost. The results followed the dictates of the form book. South Africa defied the odds and tore up the ‘chokers‘ tag. Perhaps, this is the Cup that will cheer the Proteas . India made the semis but not before having to […]

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Two years on from Cyprus’ now infamous bail-in – an event which shook the island’s economic foundation to its core – the future appears brighter, with significant progress having been secured through the collective effort for recovery. Despite consecutive positive evaluations of the country’s implementation of its economic adjustment programme, however, subs […]

The system that Lee Kuan Yew crafted during his 31 years as Prime Minister of Singapore is often mischaracterized as a one-party dictatorship superimposed on a free-market economy. But Lee's true genius was in using democratic institutions and the rule of law to curb the predatory appetite of his country'€™s ruling elite.See it on Scoop.it, via Fin […]

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COLOMBO - In another shocking statement, the International Cricket Committee announced yesterday at a press briefing that the 4 back-to-back ODI Centuries scored by the Sri Lanka's Star Batsman Kum...See it on Scoop.it, via Grammar, Humor and Much More

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There's no more important criticism than self criticism. There's no amount of external validation that can undo the constant drone of internal criticism. And negative self talk is hungry for external corroboration.See it on Scoop.it, via Lead, Follow,Grow

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